執筆者 Modern English | 2015年07月04日 | Phrases
“It’s an attack! Head for the hills!” “No, Dad, it’s just fireworks. It’s the Fourth of July!” “Head for the hills” or “run for the hills” means “run away”. The phrase might originally refer...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年07月03日 | TOEIC
“The paper is in this drawer, so just put more in the printer as need.” Find the mistake. A. The paper B. the drawer C. just put D. as need 「この引き出しに紙がありますので必要に応じてプリンターに入れてください。」 プリンターには紙が必要です。紙が必要とされます。Needは名詞でも動詞でもありえますが、名詞のほうだと「according to...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年07月02日 | Trivia
One of Aesop’s fables tells the story of a fox who was walking along and saw some grapes. He was hungry, so he wanted to eat the grapes. However, they were up very high and no matter what he did he couldn’t reach them. “They’re probably sour...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年07月01日 | Idioms
“That’s a crazy idea! Do you have a screw loose?” If someone “has a screw loose”, it means they are crazy. Imagine them as a machine or a robot. If a machine has a loose screw, it might not function properly. So when someone acts or talks...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年06月30日 | Words
“I was born in the year 2000.” It can be easy to make mistakes with “born” because it’s actually the passive form of “bear”. If a woman bears a child, the child is born. The past tense is “bore”: “She bore...
